Harry Buxton Forman

Henry Harry Buxton Forman CB was a Victorianera bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller whose literary reputation is based on his bibliographies of Percy Shelley and John Keats. In 1934 he was revealed to have been in a conspiracy with Thomas James Wise to purvey large quantities of forged first editions of Georgian and Victorian authors.

Henry Buxton Forman was born in Camberwell, south London onJuly 1842, the third son of George Ellery Forman , a retired Royal Naval surgeon and his Sussex born wife Maria Courthorpe. At the age of ten months his family moved to Teignmouth in Devon and he was educated at a Royal Naval School in New Cross where Edmund Gosse was a contemporary and lifelong acquaintance although not an intimate. Whilst at school he adapted the sobriquet Harry by which he was afterwards known. He returned to London in 1860 and lived with his brothers in Stockwell in south London after joining the Post Office atyears of age.

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